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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Woman Hollering Creek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the full name of Juan Pedro in “Woman Hollering Creek”?
(a) Juan Pedro Gomez Mendoza
(b) Juan Pedro Garcia Silva
(c) Juan Pedro Romero Munoz
(d) Juan Pedro Martinez Sanchez

2. To whose house does Cleofilas slip away occasionally to watch telenovelas?
(a) Graciela’s
(b) Lucia Mendez’s
(c) Soledad’s
(d) Don Serafin’s

3. The narrator compares Cleofilas’ father’s head with what in the beginning of the story?
(a) A parrot
(b) A catfish
(c) A wolf
(d) A burro

4. When was Sandra Cisneros born?
(a) 1954
(b) 1946
(c) 1935
(d) 1941

5. In the town where Cleofilas grew up, the narrator says “there isn’t very much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to” do what?
(a) Play cards
(b) Listen to the radio
(c) Talk and gossip
(d) Cook food

Short Answer Questions

1. By what term does the narrator refer to the local bar where Juan Pedro drinks?

2. Cleofilas was born and raised in what Mexican state?

3. What is one of the central themes in “Woman Hollering Creek”?

4. When Felice drives across the creek with Cleofilas, she opens her mouth and lets “out a yell as loud as any” what?

5. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

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